While recent reviews of natural capital and ecosystem services describe the essential principles, concepts and tools 1, the field is large and growing rapidly, yet becoming increasingly fragmented ...

Changing how land-use subsidies are implemented would give UK taxpayers better value for money and improve chances of meeting environmental targets such as Net Zero. A fundamental shift in how ...

To conduct this analysis, we combine several models and datasets (Extended Data Fig. 1). First, we attribute the country-level data on natural capital stock values in the World Bank Changing Wealth of ...

Nearly all types of natural capital—the world’s stock of resources provided by nature—are in decline. The ecosystem services that flow from those natural capital assets – such as fertile soils for ...

Gretchen Daily is a pioneer in the field known as “natural capital.” Using science and software, she shows stakeholders why it benefits everyone to prioritize conservation. Colombia’s Gulf of ...

The concept of natural capital lies at the heart of the Government’s recently published 25 Year Environment Plan. Defined as “the parts of the natural environment that produce value to people”, ...

Human economies are made possible through natural capital – stocks of land, fresh water, oceans, biodiversity and soils, among others. Farming isn’t possible without soil or water. Manufacturing isn’t ...

McKinsey & Company released a new report, Valuing Nature Conservation: A methodology for quantifying the benefits of protecting the planet’s natural capital. The planet’s stock of natural assets is ...

A fundamental shift in how land-use subsidies are implemented would give taxpayers better value for money and improve the UK’s chances of meeting its environmental targets. The government’s commitment ...